Sunday, June 8, 2014

Delays In Treatment

The lines are long and delays keep building.

Delays In Treatment
  
Any veteran who has been going to the VA for years knows about delays. Politicians act like they just found out, which is just plain crap. There was a big movement about 20 years ago to privatize the VA for profit, and that movement is probably still lurking in the background.
  
The VA owns more property than anyone, all over the country, sitting there waiting to be stripped for profit. Don’t even think for a moment that we won’t be sold down the tubes if possible.
  
This is an election year for the Congress and Senate so they will act all up in arms about the VA. After the election, things will go back to normal and we will continue to be pushed around again. Rich people with no ties to the military want to open the VA to profit corporations and let every person in the world come there for treatment for profit. They would also like to sell off a bunch of VA property for profit. They try to convince the rest of the country that we taking advantage of our veteran status.
  
We are under attack constantly, and all that phony concern in DC is just part of the sideshow. I wrote about my struggle last year about the VA seeing me for a possible tumor, and when they wouldn't, I had to go outside the VA. It wasn't cancer, but the six month wait they hit me with at the VA could have killed me if it had been cancer.
   
The best thing to do if they tell you there is a long wait, is to request to go outside the VA, in a timely manner. No one wants to wait months for the region to decide what you can do. They should be able to make that decision at the local level. Then if you go outside, tell the people you see to bill the VA. It will probably end up in a delay for the billing party, but that’s not your problem because the VA will be responsible.

(From the S-2 Report)